Accredited training

Congress mandated that the EPA collect fees from EPA accredited training programs and certified confractors to cover the EPA s costs of administering and enforcing the standards and requirements applicable to lead-based paint training programs and contractors. ... 

II) A letter attesting to the enrollment of school district personnel in an Environmental Protection Agency-accredited training course for inspection and management plan development. 

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The peak bodies also have the capacity to communicate directly on some OHS issues through newsletters and interaction with the press. They also nm training courses and seminars. Some nnion organizations improve the effectiveness of health and safety representatives in resolving issnes by being one of the organizatiorrs accredited to train those representatives, where accredited training is mandated. 

The process for initiating and electing health and safety representatives, where it is in the enabling legislation, such as for example in S.17 of the South African OHS Act, varies somewhat in each jurisdiction. Some provide accredited training for such representatives. 

A major problem has emerged in some jurisdictions because, while accredited training may be required for representatives, no similar mandated requirement exists for management trainirrg in OHS. 

At a minimum, the program requirements must include accredited training for renovators and procedures and requirements for recertification. State, territorial, and tribal programs applying for authorization are also required to include work practice standards for renovations that ensure that renovations are conducted only by certified renovators or renovation firms and that renovations are conducted using work practices at least as protective as those of the Federal program. 

Because EPA is not requiring any additional education or work experience requirements, or a third-party examination similar to that taken by inspector, risk assessor, or supervisor candidates, EPA believes that there is little value in requiring candidates to apply to EPA to receive their renovator or dust sampling technician certification. Currently, the only certified discipline without prerequisites in education or experience, or a third-party examination, is the abatement worker. When candidates for worker certification apply to EPA, EPA verifies that the copy of the training course certificate submitted with the application is from an accredited training provider. Without requiring renovators or dust sampling technicians to apply to EPA for certification, EPA will still receive course completion information from course providers. With this information, EPA will have a complete list of certified renovators and will be able to check to see if a particular course completion certificate... 

When EPA inspects a renovation job for compliance with these regulations, EPA will have the ability to verify, to the same extent, the validity of a course completion certificate held by a renovator at that job. Therefore, under this final rule, EPA is requiring that a course completion certificate from an accredited training provider serve as a renovator s or dust sampling technician s certification. To facilitate compliance monitoring, the rule requires a certified renovator or dust sampling technician to have a copy of the course completion certificate at the job site. 

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